Will the winner of the college tournament play in the main Tournament of Champions? The recent professors tournament champion will be in the TOC.
Ah,kids these days.
Game 4. They get everyone in the Billboard year end number 1 albums (while I’m going “huh?”) but they can’t tell a boxer from a minpin. 
Wasn’t there a rule on Jeopardy! that contestants not have any visible tattoos? When was that rule changed?
The guys always used to wear ties, too. Was that a rule?
Probably when they couldn’t get enough contestants that don’t have them?
I tell my wife she can never leave me because I fear I’ll never find another woman without tattoos.
My guess is that it wasn’t a rule but instead was the level of more formal dress that people used to wear.
I was amused and a bit disgusted as a Minnesotan with Monday’s Final Jeopardy: the category was “The Midwest” At about 90,000 it’s the most populous U.S. city on North America’s biggest lake. Ken had commented that the contestants were from both coasts, saying “let’s see how they fare”.
Their answers were “Green Bay” (wrong lake), “Minneapolis” (not really on a lake, but the right state), and “Green Bay” again. The answer is
Duluth - Ken: the most important port on Lake Superior, getting its day in the sun
We were yelling at the TV because our kids went to college there; we still own and rent out a house across the street from the lake.
I thought this was an easy question, but obviously it wasn’t. But, really, Minneapolis on a lake? Come on!
Well…it’s on about five lakes.
They’re good lakes, but they’re not Great Lakes (let alone the largest).
But certainly not the biggest on the continent…
It seems to me that sporting a Mohawk amounts to cultural appropriation.
My main counterargument is that, other than the name, there’s not really anything Native American about the modern version. It’s not like shaving off all but a strip of hair in the middle is exclusive to the Pawnee people (mistakenly identified as the Mohawk people). It’s a traditional part of many cultures around the world.
Yet I don’t see any others that spike it up really high, die it with bright colors, or otherwise do anything that looks like the current one. That seems to be a unique aspect of American counterculture, starting in the 1980s. And I don’t know anyone who associates that punk style with Natives.
It seems that maybe it was inspired by the racist version of the hairstyle, wore by red-face actors in certain old movies. But it’s not the same thing, and no punk is attempting to invoke the idea of Native Americans when they wear it.
As such, I personally think it makes more sense to rename it, not to try to get rid of it.
It seems to me that practically everything in American culture is “appropriation”. Tex-Mex, any “fusion” cuisine, rock and roll, using the word “Schadenfreude” and “kindergarten”, Nehru jackets, etc.
It should just be called a “crest”.
Regarding last night’s FJ, I did think of Sesame Street, but I guessed Elmo. I watched a lot of Sesame Street as a kid, but didn’t recall ever hearing of Big Bird’s supposed age. Is this something that is ever talked about or referred to? How were we supposed to know this?
For FJ I was thinking that Bart Simpson would be correct, but I guess he’s not old enough (yet). Well, old enough. But he hasn’t been around long enough.
I had the same thought process, but knew that the Elmo character was added decades after Sesame Street began, so abandoned that guess.
And I think you’re right that Elmo being a small child has been publicized and talked about much more than Big Bird being a small child. I’d never really heard the latter. The character-voice doesn’t convey ‘child’ to me, but more of a goofy-sort of adult.
I guessed Lisa Simpson because Bart is supposed to be about ten. I didn’t think of Big Bird.
Yeah, soon afterward I did recall that Elmo wasn’t part of the original Sesame Street cast. I’m surprised to see, however, reading his Wikipedia entry, that he was around in the 1980s when I was a kid. According to the entry, Elmo first appeared in 1980. That was only 11 years after Sesame Street began. I think his popularity increased in more recent decades because of the Tickle Me Elmo toy fad.
I could see it being sort of a gag that despite being so large and not really sounding like a child, Big Bird is in fact only 6 and a half years old. But where and when is this fact ever referred to, that Jeopardy contestants could be expected to know it?
Unless what they were really going for with the clue was “name a character who is more or less the face of Sesame Street.”
The clue said the character had been on the air for “more than 50 years.” That would require the Simpsons to have been on the air earlier than 1972.
I was thinking Paddington or something - Charlie Brown isn’t a bad guess IMHO.
Brian